Return-Path: Message-Id: <7523DBFE-12FA-48A2-9DF1-FA30ACEDB92C@holtmann.org> From: Marcel Holtmann To: BlueZ development In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:39:55 +0100 References: <1204800991.13254.8.camel@californication> Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] CreateSecureDevice Reply-To: BlueZ development List-Id: BlueZ development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: bluez-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Hi Andrew, >>> Aren't you maintaining bluez-gnome? Could you add this fallback to >>> properties/input.c? >> >> feel free to send a patch :) > > Trouble is that it doesn't return anything, it just segfaults. > Probably it's being called in some wrong way. I might look at it > someday but given that I can just remove 'Secure' if bluez-utils is > too old I think I'll just leave the package patched. if it segfaults then it is a bug in bluez-gnome. It should never segfault only because a method is not available. >>> I'm curious what you mean by "would have broken the API." Do you >>> mean >>> if we were to remove the method now after it has been released? >>> If so >>> then I agree, it's too late. >> >> We can't add any parameters to an already established method call. >> And >> there are cases were we wanna use a device in an unpaired way. > > There can be an input device that can be used in either paired or > unpaired mode as desired? I wouldn't have thought any such thing > existed, but if that's so then I agree and am sorry to have troubled > you about it. The HID specification and its implementation are broken in some cases :( Regards Marcel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bluez-devel mailing list Bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-devel